(a) Per 1,000 live births.(b) Medium variant projection.(c) Healthy life expectancy at birth summarises the expected number of years to be lived in what might be termed the equivalent years of 'full health'.

Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision <http://esa.un.org/unpp>, accessed 1 April 2005; The World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2003: Shaping the Future <www.who.int/whr/2003/en/Annex4-en.pdf/>, accessed 1 April 2005.

HEALTH SERVICES AND EXPENDITURE

Reference
year

Health expenditure
as % of GDP

Health expenditure
per capita at PPP(a)

Reference
year

Doctors per 1,000 population

Reference
year

Acute hospital beds
per 1,000 population

Country

%

$US '000

no.

no.

Australia

2002

9.5

2.5(b)

2001

2.5

2001

3.7

Canada

2002

9.6

2.9

2002

2.1

2001

3.2

China

2002

5.8

0.2(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

France

2002

9.7

2.7

2002

3.3

2001

4.0

Greece

2002

9.5

1.8

2001

r4.5

2000

4.0

Hong Kong (SAR of China)

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Indonesia

2002

3.2

0.1(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Italy

2002

8.5

2.2

2002

4.4

2001

4.6

Japan

2002

7.9

2.1(b)

2002

2.0

. .

n.a.

Korea (Republic of)

2002

5.0

1.0

2002

1.5

2001

5.2

Malaysia

2002

3.8

0.3(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

New Zealand

2002

8.5

1.9

2002

2.1

1991

7.0

Papua New Guinea

2002

4.3

0.1(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Singapore

2002

4.3

1.0(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Sweden

2002

9.2

2.5

2000

3.0

2000

2.4

United Kingdom

2002

7.7

2.2

2002

2.1

2002

3.9

United States of America

2002

14.6

5.3

2001

2.4

2002

2.9

Viet Nam

2002

5.2

0.1(b)

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

(a) PPP (purchasing power parities) are the rates of currency conversion which eliminate the differences in price levels between countries.(b) Reference year is 2001.

Source: The World Health Organisation 2005, The World Health Report 2005: Make every mother and child count <www.who.int/whr/2005/annexes-en.pdf>, accessed 11 April 2005; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004, OECD Health Data 2004: A comparative analysis of 30 countries <http://www.oecd.org>, accessed 1 April 2005.